5 Strangest Things Found Inside Cheap Chinese Products.
5.
Smartphones start flagging after four or five hours of constant web surfing or video watching,
meaning that remembering to pack a charging cable is,
for some, almost as vital as the device itself.
Thankfully, dozens of electronics makers have responded to this problem by launching pocket-sized
mobile batteries that can provide smartphones with a full charge simply by plugging in a
cable, preventing their gadget from falling asleep
on them.
We're not sure that a couple of bags of sand will provide all that much energy, though.
A single lithium-ion battery sitting alongside two small bags of sand were all that awaited
one unfortunate shopper from Taiwan recently upon their purchase of a counterfeit Shenzen
external battery.
Thanks to the small battery inside, the unit can, technically, be charged, but aside from
showing customers in stores or at a marketplace that the unit works, the thing is about as
useful as a paperweight.
4.
China is famous for manufacturing counterfeit goods, but this is a little excessive.
At first glance, these walnuts look like normal, everyday unshelled walnuts.
But once broken in half, instead of a delicious, nutty treat, unsuspecting buyers will be unpleasantly
surprised to find a rock sandwiched between the walnut shells.
The sale of rock walnuts is becoming so prevalent in China that there is even a popular video
on YouTube titled, "How to spot a fake walnut and the return
of making fake walnuts."
According to the video, a fake walnut is dry and won't make a sound when cracked.
3.
In 2007, a man and his son got a smelly surprise when they opened a punching bag they had purchased
earlier that year.
The man and his son were moving a TKO brand heaving punching bag from their garage to
the basement when they decided to see what was inside in case the bag later leaked out.
But, instead of sand or plastic pellets, they found the bag was full of men's and women's
underwear... some of them were used ones.
2.
Next time you consider about buying a power bank, go for the branded ones, not the cheap
ones.
Some user on Youtube actually discovered that inside his cheap power bank, only one of 4
lithium ion cells that was connected to the circuit.
Curious enough to find out why the other three were not connected, he decided to open them up.
Surprise, surprise!
The other three cells were actually filled with sand!
1.
A Russian guy bought a 500GB external hard drive from China for a "very, very low price."
He thought at first that it was a good deal, until he copied a 1.5GB movie to the drive.
What's the problem?
Somehow only the last few minutes of the movie were being stored.
So he took it to a local repair shop, and when the folks tore the disk apart, they found
a small 128MB thumb drive running in a loop, emptying itself when storage is full.
Incredible.
The Chinese engineers are smart.
They use large metal nuts to obtain some authentic "weighting" for the external hard drive,
and these large nuts could also hold the 128MB flash drive firmly.
And with the continuous loop feature, this external hard drive could provide infinite capacity.